(July 30, 2014 at 2:01 pm)alpha male Wrote: ETA: I see that orangebox beat me to this angle in saying, "From His nature. God is just. To simply overlook wrongdoing would be unjust. God cannot deny His nature."
Why doesn't Minimalist simply just...worship god?
What is "just" in punishing and/or murdering the innocent? The OT is riddled with slaughterhouse stories of infants, children, and animals all being brutally killed because this "just" god was pissed off at someone else.
Hosea 13:16
Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
And god cannot deny his nature? Really?
Genesis 8:21
And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
** Which technically isn't true either, since he's gonna destroy everything again in revelations.
Numbers chapter 14 - God is fully pissed at the israelites for whining and is ready to zap them all, but Moses strokes his ego and talks him out of it.....proving that god CAN deny his nature and "overlook wrongdoing".
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